I noticed yesterday that some of the students had already learned all the questions we had studied to find out about a movie or film. Good for you! The rest of you should check them in the last blog and try to memorize them.

In our class yesterday we practiced a short conversation related to the same topic. The conversation was:

A. Do you feel like seeing a movie?

B. Sure. What movie would you like to see?

A. How about The Clam Takes Over? It's playing at the Royal Theater. It's about a brave clam who takes over the Earth. Johnny Hook is in it.

B. It sounds good. What time is it playing?

A. Showtimes are at 5:00 and 7:00.

New words we studied:

Feel like: it is followed by another verb in the -ing form.

Take over: take control of something.

Showtime: the time when a film or movie is played.

Clam: we eat it in paella.


Later we listened to a recording about the adventures of Pinocchio and Gepetto. We also studied a few new words:

wood: the material many tables are made of.

wooden puppet: a puppet made of wood. 

grow: plants and people grow, they become taller.


HOMEWORK

1. make 2 sentences with the words feel like.

2. Make 2 sentences with the word grow.

3. Write the opening paragraph of a fairy tale. Example: opening paragraph for Pinocchio.

Once upon a time there was an old carpenter who lived alone. He did not have any children and wished he had a son, so he made a wooden puppet and dreamed the puppet would sometime become a real boy.

In our last lesson we read about the movie Matilda. We also listened to a recording that seemed a bit difficult for most of the students.

Some new words that we studied are:

bright  (very intelligent)

taught (the past of the verb teach)

grownup ( adult)

worse  (comparative of bad)

far worse ( much, much worse)

What's wrong with...? (What's the matter with, why don't you like...?)


Students had to answer some questions about the listening.


HOMEWORK

1. Remember you need to do the homework you hadn't done last week. Think of a movie you liked and answer the questions:

What kind of movie is it?

Who is in it? or Who starred in it?

Where does it take place?

What is it about? or What happens in it?

How does it end?

What did critics say about it?

2. Write a sentence with each one of the words and expressions above:

Examples:

Matilda taught herself to write when she was 3 years old.

The film is far worse than the movie.

What's wrong with your maths teacher? It's difficult to understand him.

Welcome back!

 And Happy 2015

In our first lesson this term we were learning how to talk about films or movies.

These are the questions we used and must learn:

What kind of movie is it?

Who is in it? or Who starred in it?

Where does it take place?

What is it about? or What happens in it?

How does it end?

What did critics say about it?

We studied the passive voice of verbs.

Why do we use passive voice? When we are more interested in the action itself than in the subject.

How is a passive verb formed?

To be in the right tense + past participle (3rd column) of the verb we want.

Ex: The wall is (Present verb to be) painted (past participle verb to paint) black.

It is not important who painted the wall, only that it is painted.

HOMEWORK

Write passive sentences in  Simple Present:

Active                                           Passive

1. the documents / print 
2. the window / open 
3. the shoes / buy 
4. the car / wash 
5. the litter / throw away 
6. the letter / send 
7. the book / read / not 
8. the songs / sing / not 
9. the food / eat / not 
10. the shop / close / not 

Learn the questions about movies.

Check in the Internet for the movie There is Something About Mary and answer the questions above.